Welcome to Blackpast

BlackPast - African American and Global African History

Welcome to BlackPast

This 6,000 page reference center is dedicated to providing information to the general public on African American history and the history of more than one billion people of African ancestry around the world.  We invite you to explore and use all the resources of BlackPast.

Explore African American History

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(1849) Frederick Douglass, “On Mexico”
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Dunbar Hotel (1928- )
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(1952) Charlotta Bass, “Acceptance Speech for Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Party”
Ron Stallworth
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Ronald Tobias Stallworth (1953- )

Explore Global African History

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Jeanne/Jane Vialle (1906–1953)
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Deise Nunes Ferst (1968– )
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George Weah (1966- )
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Shaka Zulu (1787-1828)

Perspectives in African American and Global African History

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The Black Diaspora in Israel, 1965 to 2011
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Patient Zero: Thomas Eric Duncan and the Ebola Crisis in West Africa and the United States
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Nicomedes Santa Cruz: A Black Public Intellectual in Twentieth-Century Peru
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U.S. Marshal Luke Moore at Ole Miss, 1962

Special Features & Resources

101 African American Firsts
Genealogy Resources
Major African American Office Holders since 1641
STEM Innovators